Friday, 30 June 2017

John Everett Millais was an English painter and book illustrator (1829 - 1896). A child prodigy who was hard-working as well as naturally gifted, he became the youngest ever student at the Royal Academy Schools when he was 11, and although he suffered some temporary setbacks in his twenties, his career was essentially one of the great Victorian success stories. In 1848, with Rossetti and Holman Hunt, he founded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and had his share of the abuse heaped against the members until Ruskin stepped in as their champion.For full biographical notes see part1, and for earlier works, see parts 1 - 6 also.This is part 7 of a 10-part post on the works of Millais:

1866 The Minuet oil on canvas

1866 The Minuet watercolour 25.5 x 10 cm

1867 Jephthahoil on canvas 127 x 162.7 cm National Museum Wales, UK

1867c Study for Jephthah's Daughter brush drawing in brown wash, heightened with white, with graphite 25.1 x 29.7 cm The British Museum, London

1868 Sisters oil on canvas 108 x 108 cm Private Collection

1868 Taking his Ease wood engraving after Millais for Once a Week Christmas 1868 The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK

1868 The Souvenir of Velázquez oil on canvas 102.7 x 82.4 cm Royal Academy of Arts, London

Wednesday, 28 June 2017

1862 Sir John Everett Millais as Dante albumen print by David Wilkie Wynfield

John Everett Millais was an English painter and book illustrator (1829 - 1896). A child prodigy who was hard-working as well as naturally gifted, he became the youngest ever student at the Royal Academy Schools when he was 11, and although he suffered some temporary setbacks in his twenties, his career was essentially one of the great Victorian success stories. In 1848, with Rossetti and Holman Hunt, he founded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and had his share of the abuse heaped against the members until Ruskin stepped in as their champion.For full biographical notes see part1, and for earlier works, see parts 1 - 5 also.This is part 6 of a 10-part post on the works of Millais: